[toddwalton]

Originally Posted by aas5

I didn't know that. I read that since 2018 all new cars are mandated to have the start stop button restart every time you start the car so it won't remember the previous setting. Your trick does the job, too, as I expect to only be driving in Sport anyway.

Cool, hitting the Sport button is the best solution and kills two birds with one stone.

The auto stop start function is only required of cars that miss federal miles per gallon standards; I lease my son’s a Honda Civic and it doesn’t have any auto stop start at all. There are people who code, they can plug into your car for 20 minutes and turn on and off such features, I do that with my 4 Series, but with the X7 the location of the button makes it really easy to just tap start then sport and be done with it.

[aas5]

Yep I always code my cars as well. Definitely adds a lot of nice features and functionalities.